255 Quotes by Paul Allen

When I was 7 or 8, I became fascinated with hot rods.

I grew up watching games with my father at Washington Husky Stadium. When I moved out to Seattle, I had a friend who would take me to Seahawks games in the 1980s.

A big part of the success of Microsoft was that every year, the chips our software ran on got faster and cheaper. They doubled in capability every 18 months under Moore's law.

If Microsoft had never existed... The industry would probably be very fragmented.

At one point, I was the youngest owner in major league sports.

The brain is the most complex, challenging scientific puzzle we have ever tried to decode.

Human beings are fragile things, and for the period of time it takes to get them to Mars and back, you have dangerous radiation from the sun and the galaxy. We have to think about issues like that.

If you have an analytical bent like I do, going back to my days as a programmer, you like to ask questions.

Objectively speaking, Traf-O-Data was a failure as a company. Right as our business started to pick up, states began to provide their own traffic-counting services to local governments for free.